Yevgen Netreba

Alex Bornyakov

Managing Partner at WannaBiz; Partner at Intersog; Board Member at Clickky; President at Adtelligent. I am an innovative entrepreneur and the driving force behind several successful companies around the world.
At the age of 26, I founded VertaMedia, a video Supply Side Platform (SSP) for publishers. Under my leadership, VertaMedia has become a major player in today’s martech landscape. The business was recognized as one of North America’s fastest growing private companies in Deloitte's 2016 Technology Fast 500™ and is honored among the top 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the country by Inc. 5000
I am multi-lingual and a regular columnist for a number of respected industry publications including Forbes, Business2Community, and MarTech Today. I have spoken at numerous industry events including dmexco and VideoNuze Video Ad Summit.
In 2016, I was recognized as one of Ukraine’s top 25 Trailblazing Business Leaders by KyivPost, Ukraine's largest English-speaking media house.

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Sergii Myronenko

Startups, Export & Entrepreneurship Development (SEED), Google Ukraine
Industry Manager, Multisector (Telco, Finance, CPG, Automotive), Large Customer Sales, Google Ukraine since 2010.
Three last years he is leading Startups, Export & Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) project in Ukraine aimed to help small and emerging companies grow from start-up and SMB level to key Google’s customers by providing Google’s expertise, resources and product support.

Valeriy Dobrovolskiy

Expert at the USAID Competitive Economy Program (CEP) in Ukraine. Among his work at CEP, he supports the eo Business Incubators, which are funded by USAID CEP. The Incubators are Ukraine's premier seed-stage mentor-driven incubation program, with space in Kyiv and Kharkiv. Using expert mentors with real-world experience, eo works with Ukrainian startups from across Ukraine, that build businesses around all types of technology, to compete globally and successfully grow to the next level.

Nadiia Kaznacheieva

Investment Director at UMG Investments. Prior to joining UMG Investments, Nadiia served as Deputy Minister for Infrastructure of Ukraine, was then Advisor to the Minister, and Head of Projects for the National Investment Council of Ukraine under the President of Ukraine. While occupying these positions, Nadiia was responsible for attracting investment, introducing corporate governance into state-owned companies, preparing for privatisation, as well as for the development of public–private partnerships and concessions.
Prior to working on public sector reform, she headed M&A direction for the Altius (formerly Golden Gate Business) Investment Company. Nadiia took part in negotiating a series of M&A agreements for the company in FMCG, pharmaceuticals, real estate, retail, and other sectors.
Nadiia graduated from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and has a Master’s Degree in International Economics.

Sergey Kutovoy

Chief Innovation Officer, Noosphere. Leads activity of Noosphere Association to locate and develop hi-tech innovative projects in Ukraine.
Managed international business development activity of Yuzhnoye SDO (www.yuzhnoye.com) in the World regions devoted to space and non-space projects.
Has aerospace mechanical engineering background and wide range of experience in the proposal development and review, keynote presentation, business planning, financial analysis, contractual matters, project management.

We invite everyone who is ready to present their extraordinary solution, everyone who has long dreamed of finding a great investment opportunity!

At the Startup Battle you will be able to:

Meet the main players in the venture capital and start-up industry

Find funding for your project.

Present your solution to corporate clients directly

Talk with experts from various industries.

Test your understanding of the needs of the end user

Only 10 startups will be selected for the presentation! They will attend the event free of charge. To participate, please, fill in the application before September 26, 2019. Results will be announced on October 1st, 2019.

Every presenter will have an attention of the whole audience for 3-minute pitching and additional 3 minutes for questions and answers.

Three most promising innovative solutions will be selected upon the Judge’s online voting.

The Agenda of the event:

16:30 – 17:00 – Registration (please, bring your ID and a ticket)

17:00 – 17:10 – Organizers presentation

17:10 – 18:00 – Panel discussion with Venture Industry Experts

18:00 – 18:15 – Coffee break

18:15 – 19:30 – Startups presentation

19:30 – 20:00 – Networking: a great opportunity to establish the right and reliable personal contacts

Date and time of the event: October 8, 2019; 17:00Location: SENATOR Business Center, 32/2 Moskovska Street, Kyiv, 16th floor. The ID is required.

The admission price for guests is from 190 UAH. The tickets can be purchased by clicking the button “Ticket and Registration” on the event page.*The tickets are non-refundable.

Venue

SENATOR Business Center, 32/2 Moskovska Street, Kyiv, 16th floor.

Testimonials

I am so happy that I have participated in Dubai Unicorn Battle. Winning the 1st place of this prestigious award is one of many excitements. As an entrepreneur I am actively raising funds and super busy scaling my startup, therefore I was looking for battles with cash prizes! but after I attended the Unicorn Battle, the benefits were more rewarding than immediate cash. All the 18 judges were active investors or consultants who help raising investment, their feedbacks and advices were impressive and helpful to scale to the next level. The organization by Lena and Kateryna was great, the networking and coffee breaks allowed me to make new connections, and we got approached by two interested investors right after the award ceremony.

Ok, yes I'm excited that we won the Startup Battle this week. But mostly I want to let my other entrepreneur friends out there know that this event is really great. The Judges were all very impressive active investors - and all super engaged with Q&A and feedback - the programming beforehand was excellent, and all the companies that pitched were outstanding. If you have an opportunity to participate in one of these events, do it!

The main thing I would like to share is the event went beyond our expectations.

The venue was really full of interested people and even overcrowded, and that created the right emotional state for the pitching startups and for the audience. We met a few potential investors and made very valuable connections during networking.

After 1 month we are still in connection with the attendees of that Startup Battle. We are working on the Third Opinion Care development together.

We will definitely consider participating in the next events organized by the same team.

Thank you Startup Network for giving Fanalyze the opportunity to pitch at your event! I met some awesome founders and was able to network with several investors. I enjoyed pitching and learning about the other startups in different industries.

After participating in the Startup Battle, which was held by Startup.Network in the Silicon Valley, we gained tremendous amount of experience on how to build the startup and attract investments. Especially it was very cool to talk with MS. He gave us a lot of advice. If it were no it for this event, we would not be able to get such advice. Then we actively worked on searching for investors which we did. We began due diligence but we realised that we did not want to take any investments on the early stage. Again, useful advice from Mike Sandler, his criticism to be precise, helped us to find the way. At this point, we have several investors from among the surgeons, but for now, we are managing on our own.

Now we have an MVP that is not just a set of tools but a surgical robot. The manufacturing of the primary product is taking place in Taiwan. At this point, it is on the stage of being certified.

If somebody asks me whether I need any investments in the early stages, I will say no. It is significantly more important to develop the right network and to get proper advice.

We took part in several Startup Battles, organised by Startup.Network, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Minsk, Almaty, Kharkov and attended Startup Battle in San Francisco.

I believe that it helped us to be selected from more than 1000 competitors for acceleration program in the Netherlands, where we were the only startup from Eastern Europe.

Attending the Startup Battles is very beneficial for expending networking and gaining useful feedback. In particular, the feedback, what we got on Startup Battle, from the investor form the Silicon Valley helped us to find new and more perspective niche and make the pivot. We would be glad to collaborate with the Startup.Network team again.

We took part in two Startup.Network events: Startup Battle in Moscow and Startup BAttle in Silicon Valley.

We won the 1st place in Moscow and got a lot of attention from the media and investors. After that event, we received lots of useful pieces of advice and attended meetings with investors.

And we won the 3d place in Silicon Valley, and right after the pitch Marvin Liao
(Partner 500 Startups) offered us to join 500 Startups accelerator. Being acquainted with Marwin helped us one more time in Moscow in some time.